I love fresh fruit. I enjoy going to farmers’ markets and buying fruit fresh from the farmers who have carefully grown it. Touching the fruit to check how ripe it is or giving a little knock on it to listen for its ripeness delights me. One of the downsides of winter in the Midwest is…
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California-San Diego revealed the following: “Through mobile phones, online entertainment services, the Internet, electronic mail, television, radio, newspapers, books, social media etc. people receive every day about 105,000 words or 23 words per second in half a day (12 hours) (during awake hours). Although people can…
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you. (1 Peter 5:6-7 CSB) Teaching is the most difficult and most rewarding job I have ever had. However, it took me a while to get there. When I first…
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines,…
I was a military wife, mother to three young children and one huge Dalmatian. About to be stationed on a Portuguese island in the middle of the Atlantic, I was excited about the adventure that awaited our family of five. We left Turkey and boarded a plane for the Azores, excited to spend two more…
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV) When we met at the end of high school, I was a Republican, and my husband was…